The War of the Rebellion: v. 1-53 [serial no. 1-111] Formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the southern states, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, order and returns relating specially thereto. 1880-1898. 111 vU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - Confederate States of America Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas. |
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... shell , commencing with the former . Twelfth . Battery Kirby , Lieut . Charles Sellmer , Eleventh Maine Volunteer In- fantry , commanding , comprising two 10 - inch seacoast mortars , against Fort Sum- ter , the shells to be exploded ...
... shell , commencing with the former . Twelfth . Battery Kirby , Lieut . Charles Sellmer , Eleventh Maine Volunteer In- fantry , commanding , comprising two 10 - inch seacoast mortars , against Fort Sum- ter , the shells to be exploded ...
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... shells into the city of Charleston ; it was placed on a plain wooden carriage manufactured on Morris Island . Sixty - nine days elapsed between the first and last discharge of the gun . It was being fired the 4,606th round when it burst ...
... shells into the city of Charleston ; it was placed on a plain wooden carriage manufactured on Morris Island . Sixty - nine days elapsed between the first and last discharge of the gun . It was being fired the 4,606th round when it burst ...
Page 92
... shells , spiked planks , and pikes placed in the ditch for its defense . 4. The bomb - proof of Wagner could not ... shell . Only 1,800 ( 200 in Wagner , 1,600 in Gregg ) pounds of ammu- nition were left , to explode the magazines and ...
... shells , spiked planks , and pikes placed in the ditch for its defense . 4. The bomb - proof of Wagner could not ... shell . Only 1,800 ( 200 in Wagner , 1,600 in Gregg ) pounds of ammu- nition were left , to explode the magazines and ...
Page 127
... shells , 3 only of which burst , and it was demonstrated that Black Island could not be reached with that gun . The large Blakely gun just mounted at Rattery Ramsay was fired to - day at 1 p . m . , with a charge of 40 pounds weight of ...
... shells , 3 only of which burst , and it was demonstrated that Black Island could not be reached with that gun . The large Blakely gun just mounted at Rattery Ramsay was fired to - day at 1 p . m . , with a charge of 40 pounds weight of ...
Page 129
... shell was fired from the Brooke gun at a battery the enemy were erecting on Morris Island , and struck near the working party . Twenty - one shells were fired from the mortars during the day ; but in the evening , owing to a violent ...
... shell was fired from the Brooke gun at a battery the enemy were erecting on Morris Island , and struck near the working party . Twenty - one shells were fired from the mortars during the day ; but in the evening , owing to a violent ...
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advance assault Assistant Adjutant-General attack August Battalion Battery Gregg Battery Simkins Battery Wagner Beauregard boats bomb-proof bombardment breaching Brig brigade Brigadier-General Brooke gun Capt Captain casualties Charleston Cheves Colonel columbiad commanding Company Creek Cumming's Point directed duty end of Morris Folly Island force Fort Johnson Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter Fort Wagner front garrison Georgia gunboats Hagood harbor headquarters Hilton Head howitzers infantry iron-clads Ironsides James Island Johnson July Keitt land batteries last night Lieut Lieutenant Light-House Inlet magazine marsh Military District monitors morning Morris Island mortar shells Moultrie o'clock obedient servant officers opened fire operations ordnance Otter Island parapet Parrott rifles party pickets position re-enforcements rear regiment respectfully Ripley Saint Helena Island sand-bags second parallel September sharpshooters shots were fired siege signal steamer Stono Sullivan's Island Sumter telegraph teries to-day transports troops vessels Volunteer Engineers Wagner and Gregg wounded yards